How Belief Works
The revolutionary truth about the psychology of belief
Contents
Chapter 1: The Revolutionary Truth About the Psychology of Belief
What we believe about belief is profoundly wrong
Chapter 2: What Is Belief?
The definition, and misdefinition, of belief
Chapter 3: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
The two surprisingly basic logical flaws in the idea that we believe something because we've assessed that it's true
Chapter 4: Belief Is Certainty
Why there aren't degrees of belief
Chapter 5: How Beliefs Form
The vindication of a radical, and disregarded, 340-year-old theory